slander

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From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#SLANDERCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#SLANDER slaundre, sclaundre, from Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#SLANDER esclandre, from Ecclesiastical LatinCategory:English terms derived from Ecclesiastical Latin#SLANDER scandalum (stumbling block, temptation), from Ancient GreekCategory:English terms derived from Ancient Greek#SLANDER σκάνδαλον (skándalon, scandal). Doublet of scandalCategory:English doublets#SLANDER.

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slander (countable and uncountable, plural slanders)Category:English lemmas#SLANDERCategory:English nouns#SLANDERCategory:English uncountable nouns#SLANDERCategory:English countable nouns#SLANDERCategory:English countable nouns#SLANDERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SLANDERCategory:Pages with entries#SLANDERCategory:Pages with 1 entry#SLANDER

  1. A false or unsupported, malicious statement (spoken, not written), especially one which is injurious to a person's reputation; the making of such a statement.

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slander (third-person singular simple present slanders, present participle slandering, simple past and past participle slandered)Category:English lemmas#SLANDERCategory:English verbs#SLANDERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SLANDERCategory:Pages with entries#SLANDERCategory:Pages with 1 entry#SLANDER

  1. To utter a slanderous statement about; baselessly speak ill of; to wrong.
    • 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: [], London: [] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] [], published 1602, →OCLC, Act III:
      Tuc[ca]. [] Can thy Author doe it impudently enough?
      Hiſt[rio]. O, I warrant you, Captaine: and ſpitefully inough too; he ha's one of the moſt ouerflowing villanous wits, in Rome. He will ſlander any man that breathes; If he diſguſt him.
      Tucca. I'le know the poor, egregious, nitty Raſcall; and he haue ſuch commendable Qualities, I'le cheriſh him: []
      Category:English terms with quotations#SLANDER

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